Sontag Surname
Approximately 5,550 people bear this surname
Sontag Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,925 | 1:123,918 | 13,187 |
| Germany | 709 | 1:113,548 | 13,978 |
| Brazil | 546 | 1:392,078 | 14,963 |
| France | 486 | 1:136,672 | 20,929 |
| Canada | 251 | 1:146,795 | 15,033 |
| Poland | 138 | 1:275,426 | 33,676 |
| England | 112 | 1:497,483 | 31,781 |
| Finland | 70 | 1:78,524 | 8,534 |
| Netherlands | 51 | 1:331,121 | 38,060 |
| Austria | 46 | 1:185,118 | 23,639 |
| Argentina | 32 | 1:1,335,732 | 76,713 |
| Luxembourg | 30 | 1:19,351 | 4,315 |
| Croatia | 29 | 1:145,814 | 20,021 |
| Sweden | 25 | 1:393,870 | 27,867 |
| Australia | 24 | 1:1,124,821 | 62,883 |
| Chile | 13 | 1:1,355,113 | 23,887 |
| Slovakia | 9 | 1:592,939 | 64,129 |
| Czechia | 6 | 1:1,772,245 | 105,647 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Bermuda | 5 | 1:13,056 | 1,849 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 428 | 1:117,333 | 11,513 |
The alternate forms: Sontág (55) are calculated separately.
Sontag (24) may also be a first name.
Sontag Demographics
Average Male Sontag Height
175.23 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Sontag Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontag Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sontag is found most in The United States. It may be rendered as: Sontág. Click here to see other possible spellings of Sontag.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontag? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 86,765th most prevalent last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,313,071 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 68 percent of Sontag reside; 57 percent reside in North America and 57 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,187,323rd most numerous first name world-wide It is held by 24 people.
Sontag is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is held by 2,925 people, or 1 in 123,918. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: New York, where 9 percent reside, California, where 9 percent reside and Missouri, where 8 percent reside. Besides The United States this surname occurs in 44 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 13 percent reside and Brazil, where 10 percent reside.
Sontag Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Sontag has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Sontag last name expanded 683 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 5,600 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Sontag Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Sontag surname are 11.13% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.9% registered with the political party.
The amount Sontag earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 15.81% more than the national average, earning $49,972 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.64% more than the national average, earning $50,995 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sontag
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